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"No matter how much our technology pollutes it, the Earth does its best to remain magnificent."

Despite drawing its aesthetics from 80s/90s Saturday morning cartoons, Brok deals with a lot of dark, mature themes and takes place in a polluted, post-apocalyptic setting where hope is scarce. However, it doesn't mean that it is nonexistent.


General

  • Helping out The Tramp, an old muskrat suffering from a heart disease. Brok can save him from the Squealers in the beginning of the game and aid him with his illness by giving him Glucosite as a substitute medicine before renewing his prescription and getting him a five years' worth of his actual medicine. He doesn't offer any reward until the last day where he leaves behind a farewell letter explaining that he is Ric - a close friend of Brok's Grandpa - and a clover that allows him or Graff to survive one fatal blow.
  • Brok bringing Graff on top of a tall building, where he reveals that this was where he and his mother, Lia, would stay and talk to one another every evening. They start bonding, with Graff admitting that whilst he has forgotten most of his past, one of the things he fondly remembers was Brok saving him from the fire that killed his mother. Brok promises that he will always stand by him, with Graff stating that he trusts his stepfather. As a bonus, if Brok's bond with Graff is 55 or above, Brok will uses his phone to (clumsily) take a selfie of him with Graff, with the latter reassuring Brok that a second take won't be unnecessary. If Graff examines the selfie during his playable section(s), he says that he will take good care of it.

Endings/Credits

  • One of the Modular Epilogue scenes, provided that Dr. Mink and Dr. Hush are still alive, has the former leaving his job as a scientist because he realizes that he has been so focused on his scientific pursuits that he's never had anything but a normal life. Dr. Hush understands and hopes for the best for Dr. Mink. Despite the two being established as work-rivals who constantly bickered for years, Mink and Hush part ways on good terms, with the former acknowledging the latter as his friend.
  • In another one of the Modular Epilogue scenes, if R.J. doesn't survive but Ott does, the hybrid enters the police department and runs into a lowly shirtless, chubby Squealer. Ott stops him before he flees, assures him it's fine he was looting, and provides an aversion to What Measure Is a Mook? by offering the guy a clean job there because there are no more living staff and, especially after what happened, he doesn't trust the bots. Elated, the Squealer runs out to tell the others, Ott reminding him he can't handle too many and being told he'll tell only one or two. Ott notes that he's getting a team, and hopes he can manage them all.
  • If Sin and Dee are alive by the end of a playthrough, there is a scene where Dee finds out that her husband has been giving their daughter some anties (a portmanteau of ants and candies), with the kangaroo admitting to his "crime". When Sin asks her if he will need to go back to jail to get more Oblivion, Dee quickly reassures him by declaring him not guilty. She then says that she loves him, and Sin replies by stating that he will be always be by his wife and daughter's side. After witnessing the trials and tribulations the Sin and Dee has to go through in the game, it's heartwarming to see the couple reuniting with each other and their little girl, never to be apart again.
  • The Slumer ending can be argued as the least bitter among the game's collection of Bittersweet Ending, and it can be achieved if Brok's Relationship Values with Graff is 85 or higher. Barring the fact that everything related to Shay, from the "Open when you're feeling really desperate" letter she gave to Brok to her very existence, vanishing as a result of a time paradox, the bond Brok has with his stepson has become stronger than ever to the point that Graff is willing to stay a Slumer for the rest of his life just so he will never have to leave his stepfather alone. While going out to get some grocery, Brok treats him and Ott, who has become a Drumer and will move to the Dome the next day, by taking them to a concert featuring The MasterTweaks, a chipbeat band and a favorite of Graff. During the performance, Brok offers to let Graff assist him in his line of work, which the cat happily accepts.

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